Quotes about Society
The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
- Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of society's virtue.
- Ayn Rand
I think it's a worthy undertaking--to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole.
- Ayn Rand
The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!
- Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
- Ayn Rand
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.
- Stephen Colbert
Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.
- Stephen Colbert
The low esteem in which science and scientists are held is having serious consequences. We live in a society that is increasingly governed by science and technology, yet fewer and fewer young people want to go into science.
- Stephen Hawking
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
- Edmund Hillary
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A people are not made for rulers, but rulers for a people.
- Jonathan Edwards